Several years ago Rene Caisse, a Canadian Nurse, met a woman who had been cured of cancer by a tea formula given her by the Ojibway Indians. Rene made the tea and gave it to her aunt, who had inoperable cancer. Her aunt was cured. Rene then started growing these herbs in her back yard and spent the rest of her life applying this miraculous cancer cure. She named the tea "Essiac," which is Rene Caisse's last name spelled backward. Rene learned to make a solution from the herbs which she gave by injection, but she always used the tea also because she found a combination of both to be the most effective.. Word got around and soon people from near and far found their way to her house for her marvelous treatments. Rene was attacked routinely by the government and authorities in Canada. But she had lots of support from natural doctors, who always seemed to come to her rescue. The alternative doctors sent many of their patients to her. She never took any money for her treatments. This helped keep the Canadian government off her back (for a long while). She did accept donations and she lived very modestly. Rene never gave out the formula to anyone until she died because she was afraid that the Canadian government would suppress it if known. She also protected the formula from conventional medical practitioners because she was afraid they would test it in such ways to "prove" it was ineffective. So she did not give up the formula until she died.
Even though Essiac Tea has only been known of since the 1920's, naturopathic doctors have been using the active ingredients for hundreds of years, as have the Indians. The Essiac ingredients consist of Burdock, Sheep Sorrel, Turkey Rhubarb, and Slippery Elm, in the proper proportions. In most writings about Essiac, it is warned that many manufactures substitute the true Sheep Sorrel herb (which is expensive) with the cheap Yellow Dock herb. The substitute is not dangerous, only much less effective.
But there is a great deal of controversy about the formula Rene left when she died. The controversy is about whether the tea has just the 4 herbs above, or more. The reasons for the controversy are twofold. When Rene left Canada for the United States (the Government finally shut her down in Canada), she worked with Dr. Brusch, an American doctor who was very supportive of her work. She and Dr. Brusch wanted to make the tea alone as effective as the combination of tea and injections that Rene used for years in Canada. They wanted to eliminate the need for the injections. As the story goes, they did accomplish this purpose. They accomplished it by adding a few more herbs to the basic 4. The other reason for the controversy is simply money-hungry people who wish to have a monopoly on "the only true formula." This argument has been going on for years.
You don't need to get caught up in the argument, however, as both kinds have the 4 basic herbs. Your job is to obtain the purest and freshest Essiac. Try either kind, and find out for yourself which works best for you. And it is no trouble at all to add 2 oz in the morning and 2 oz. in the evening of this wonderful brew to your health program.
Essiac tea does
not cure cancer in everyone, and Rene Caisse never
called it a cancer cure. It relieves pain and improves
your odds of overcoming disease. Essiac also is attributed
to helping diabetics. Dr. Frederick Banting, one of
the discoverers of insulin, said that Essiac seems
to regenerate the ability of the pancreas to produce
insulin. There are patients on record who were able
to stop insulin completely after use of Essiac. In
fact, Essiac worked often on Arthritis, kidney and
bladder problems, ulcers, cataracts, glaucoma, liver
problems, colon problems, sinus trouble, gout, pneumonia,
high blood pressure, headache, diarrhea, constipation,
and hemorrhoids. No matter who says what about which
Essiac, there are hundreds of patients totally free
of cancer today who enthusiastically attribute their
success to Essiac Tea.
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